Family Learning Celebrate the Chinese New Year
The Family Learning Group celebrated the Chinese New Year today. The group made Chinese Lanterns and paper snakes with Megan to celebrate the year of the Snake.
Cook and Taste Group 2 complete the programme
The second Cook and Taste course held at the POD finished today, Chris Walker from Food Net did another fantastic course with our parents, teaching them how to make heathy and nutrituous food from scratch, the sessions have included dishes like fish pie, jerk chicken, pizza and curry along with wonderful deserts like carrot cake,…
Play Together Course Sucess
The final session for the Play Togerther Course run by Birmingham City Council Adult Education Family Learning Department took place today, the course has been very popular with our parents who learned about lots of activites and play ideas to use with their children at home and gained an understanding of how their children learned.…
Ladywood District Convention Saturday 9th February 2013
POD Staff attended a very successful Ladywood District Convention on Saturday and were lucky enough to be nominated for the Community Organisation Award 2013, the certificate was presented by Councillor Yvonne Mosquito, the Ladywood District Committee Chair and Leslie Poulton who is the Service Intergration Head for Birmingham City Council. We would like to thank…
British Red Cross First Aid Course
The British Red Cross First Aid Course is well underway here at the POD, there are sixteen Nechells residents all undertaking a six week course that will lead to a certificate in First Aid. This week concentrated on applying bandages and slings to injuries and strains. The course is both fun and informative and has…
Proud Past , Bright Future Tree Project
The Proud Past Bright Future Project which has been sponsored by Smurfit Kappa SSK started the tree planting programme in some of the schools in Nechells today. Paul Freeman, the Operations Director for Smurfit Kappa SSK in Nechells visited St Vincent’s Catholic Primary to plant the first tree for the project with the pupils and…
Family Learning – Help you child with Maths – Ian Teffer
Nechells Parents Forum enjoyed a Maths class today with Ian Teffer. Ian has been working closely with staff from our Zone schools on a Numeracy Project to help our children with their progress in Maths. This session was for parents to learn about games you can play with numbers to help your child develop their…
FiN visit to Heartlands Academy
Heartlands Academy hosted a visit and laid on a super fish and chip lunch for some of the FiN group today. The Principal Mrs Jones and Community Director Mrs Buckingham welcomed the Nechells residents and talked about the wonderful new school and all the opportunities that there are for the young people today. Several of…
Family Learning in the Snow
The numbers attending family learnig were very depleted this week because of the bad weather. The children enjoyed playing in the snow and the POD had it’s first snow sculpture of the season.